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| Thread ID: 103347 | 2009-09-19 10:47:00 | Do you use much of your smart features on your smartphone? | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
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| 811905 | 2009-09-19 10:47:00 | I got my first, E75, great phone as it is. Now Skype is not yet supported, might look at Fring. Then, maybe it is a business phone, the email client always tries to connect to mobile data without asking me first every now and then it says ding dong you have mail, spam or what not and I am charged for it. I bought it for the slide out keyboard and thought I be do a bit of email on it but maybe it is better getting one of those netbooks or one of those thin executive laptops. To fire off a 200 word email is just not that possible on a mobile phone and to surf on the phone and read news and do trademe on the move. I also thought I could read PDF on it like scanned maps for travel and a few pages per city for the travel guide and a bit of surfing in that regard via my travels. On a small phone maybe that is asking too much. I even thought about writing my diary with its wordprocessor via my travels. Maybe mobile data plans are not that bad now ...... esp a Dell netbook has a builtin cellular modem. Cheers. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 811906 | 2009-09-19 10:57:00 | GPS is pointless on mobile phones. First you have to pay for mobile data for assisted GPS. I have not tried it yet so cannot comment on that. The practical question would be, would you use GPS on your mobile phone regularly and pay regularly or would you just use a Garmin/Navman/TomTom. They say A-GPS does work without mobile data, so far I have stood outside for 2 minutes and failed to register my position, they say I may need to stand there 5 or 10 minutes. How useful is that? My Navman gets a position in under 30 seconds. Then if I travel overseas, am I going to download all the lovely overseas maps and then pay international roaming mobile data? |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 811907 | 2009-09-19 12:43:00 | Yup, I pretty much use all the features in my smartphone (thats the reason I bought it). Office Mobile/Email/GPS/Google maps/Skype/MSN- everything | beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 811908 | 2009-09-19 12:54:00 | Yup, I pretty much use all the features in my smartphone (thats the reason I bought it). Office Mobile/Email/GPS/Google maps/Skype/MSN- everything Likewise, I use mine mostly for business purposes. As I'm out a lot between uni, social stuff and business stuff, I use the email all the time to keep up with stuff. Also TradeMe on mobile web sometimes and various other mobile web needs from time to time. I don't have GPS so don't use that. I rarely but occasionally use MSN on it. My data plan costs $4.50 per month for 20MB which is enough for me. Could get 120MB for $9 if I wanted to. |
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| 811909 | 2009-09-19 21:17:00 | I don't have a smartphone, but I try to use all the features I can. (PDF reader, mobile Internet, calendar, video playback/recording :D) | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 811910 | 2009-09-19 21:25:00 | Yup, I pretty much use all the features in my smartphone (thats the reason I bought it). Office Mobile/Email/GPS/Google maps/Skype/MSN- everything Yup, I also use at the features on my smartPhone, and also a number of 3rd party applications: email, web, ipod, maps, weather, facebook, tv guide, games, online radio, gps etc. :clap |
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| 811911 | 2009-09-19 22:20:00 | Do you find it limited? I am looking at a Netbook, Vodafone has a free one on offer for 2yr mobile data plans which looks not bad . I sorta find that if I wanna push out a 200 word email on the Smartphone that is asking too much . Likewise reading full page scans off a travel guide book, google searching and reading a couple of different webpages or to write my travel diary and do continuous formatting and layout formatting . Ie . , maybe 500 words per day . Anyone tried mobile data overseas? Pretty pricey eh . . like to use A-GPS on the phone . |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 811912 | 2009-09-19 23:30:00 | Vodafone's "free" is (long term) usually painfully expensive to the user. They are designed to increase Vodafone's profit which is fair enough. You may be lucky enough to fit in a niche that can be to your gain. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 811913 | 2009-09-20 21:56:00 | Yeah *dont* go for that netbook plan, it's BAD news ... I frequently do decently long emails on my iPhone, including posts from PressF1. It's nothing to receive a PDF attachment (We have Fax2PDF so it happens a lot) and read tender requirements, building plans, support job requests / details. I'd be lost without mine to be frank! GPS on the iPhone is great, usually taking all of 5-6 seconds to get a pretty accurate pinpoint in most locations (Within 5-10m). Mobile data on Prepay is $10 for 100MB which is a *lot* even with daily emails, GPS etc, but just don't try tethering to your laptop or you'll FLY through that usage in no time. Flash ads etc are to thank for that mostly ;) I even do basic web-design changes on it.. The keyboard is nice and fast, corrects the words I mis-type pretty accurately when I'm typing in a REAL hurry, I found it took about 2-3 days before I was a whiz at typing on it. It doesn't take much to become an expert at "aiming" for things as you touch the screen. Seriously recommend trading up your Nokia for one, you'll be hooked for sure! Perhaps I should post screenshots of the home screen, with all the apps that I use, might give you an indication of how useful the lil buggers really can be ;) |
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